Payment REST API
| 1561824

Description
The Payment REST API is sending HTTP response code 202 instead of 201 when the error reason is
contact_processor
.
Audience
Users of the Payment REST API.
Technical Details
The affected endpoint is
pts/v2/payments
.
Workaround
None.

Boarding and Virtual Terminal
| 001548638

Description
Virtual Terminal is visible in the Business Center to merchant accounts onboarded to the VAP portfolio that are not enabled for Virtual Terminal.
Audience
Resellers on the VAP portfolio.
Technical Details
None.
Workaround
None.

Reporting
| 1542583

Description
A defect is affecting the Transaction Request Report. For some requests that resulted in 102 errors, the Rmsg column is not populated.
Audience
Users of the Transaction Request Report.
Technical Details
None.
Workaround
None.

Payments
| 1484767

Description
A defect is preventing enhanced data from being passed in API responses for authorizations and refunds on Visa Platform Connect gateways for airline and hospitality merchants.
Audience
Users of enhanced data.
Technical Details
When the merchant has configured the
<gateway>_enhanced_data_enabled
field and they send airline or hospital data request fields in the API for authorizations and refunds, the
<auth or credit>_enhanced_data_enabled
field is not sent in the response.
Workaround
None.

Payments

Description
The Transaction Reference Number is not being included in the batching file for merchants that use Streamline for payment processing. This defect can affect reconciliation.
Audience
Merchants that use Streamline for payment processing.
Technical Details
The Merchant Reference Number is being passed during authorization instead of the Transaction Reference Number.
Workaround
For reconciliation purposes, use the Merchant Reference Number in the Clearing File.

Reports
| 1549972

Description
Some merchants might experience issues downloading reports if the report subscription time zone is set to Africa/Cairo. Despite the reports being generated successfully, they might receive an error message.
Audience
Merchants who subscribed to reports in the Africa/Cairo Time Zone.
Technical Details
Error Message when using the Business Center: "Error: File is not available. Try again later."
Error Message when using the REST API: "Requested Resource Not Found"
Workaround
Reports after September 21 are working properly. The affected reports must be recreated as a one-time report.

Dynamic Data
| 1209374

Description
Merchants on Elevon Americas that enable the new Dynamic Data feature might experience transaction failures due to a defect in data validation.
Audience
Merchants on Elevon Americas.
Technical Details
The API field
merchant_country
is not being validated correctly.
Workaround
If you would like to use the Dynamic Data feature, contact Customer Support to have your account configured and monitored.

Batch Upload
| 1528573

Description
A defect is causing a false success message during batch upload in the Business Center. If a batch upload file contains a
batchID
field with a value longer than the maximum supported length of 8 characters, the batch fails, as it was designed to do. However, the response message says
file successfully uploaded
.
Audience
Users of Batch Upload.
Technical Details
None.
Workaround
Manually verify that the value of any
batchID
field is within the 8 character maximum before uploading.

Payments 2.0
| 1535893

Description
Merchants using
auth_type
=autocapture
when performing a sale transaction might experience data issues in the Business Center, Decision Manager, and Reporting.
Audience
Users of the Payments 2.0 platform.
Technical Details
The current implementation of the Payments 2.0 platform does not support
auth_type
=autocapture
.
Workaround
Refrain from using
auth_type
=autocapture
in sale transactions until this issue is fixed. Instead, use
auth_type
=standardcapture
or
auth_type
=verbal
.

Merchant Boarding API

Description
Boarding new transacting merchant IDs using the Merchant Boarding API might require assistance by Visa Acceptance Solutions Customer Support to adjust the hierarchy.
Audience
Users of the Merchant Boarding API.
Technical Details
None.
Workaround
Contact Customer Support to adjust the value of the field for each newly created merchant ID.